I stopped watching wrassling consistently a few years back, and only tune in occasionally now. But I thoroughly enjoy your weekly rundown, especially your mockery of bad writing and story arcs. Well done.

This isn’t necessarily a criticism of Nathan, but I don’t really understand the mockery that Batista gets for how he dresses. Not just from people here, but seemingly everywhere on the Internet.

I mean, a wrestler who wears pants is kind of a rarity. And a wrestler who wears anything other than his own merchandise is also a nice change. Frankly, Batista’s wardrobe is one of the only things I can find to like about him.

I’d actually prefer Batista wear his gear (if he had any) to the crap that he trots out there. The best way I can explain it is – Batista is the male version of that 40-something mom who still shops at Forever 21 and is actually deluded enough to think that her teenage kids think that she’s cool.

I respectfully disagree with your Bray Wyatt stance, but that Andre the Giant joke was awesome. I like Bray in the same way that I like campy horror movies. Yeah the actual content of his promos is 90% nonsense, but he’s such an engaging performer that I totally go along with it.

^^This. But it’s not just a Bray thing. I mean, the PG-era has neutered most of the aspects of WWE that made the Attitude-era awesome, so anyone who was a fan through that is going to look at the present product, shrug and let out a hipster “Meh.”

I’ve been a fan straight through since the summer of 1992, and I don’t understand the rose-colored glasses with which so many people look at the Attitude Era. What would Wyatt do in the AE that he wouldn’t do now? Crucify someone on a symbol? Hang someone from a cell? Hook someone up to a car battery? It’s all been done, and I’m mentioning those things specifically because they were so over-the-top.

A truly creative Creative team can write a good show, no matter what rating they have to hit. PG just means no blood, titties, or swear words. And none of those things are necessary for a good match.

I wasn’t there for the attitude era, but I can say that I fully agree with what @Pencil-Necked Geek said. bray’s stuff are great (although I wished they’d give us more of the wyatt’s house where they brain wash people like when they first debuted, and surely wish that brandon’s scenario with the hundred followers wearing sheap masks behind bray at mania happens). the group certainly has the potential to make it big time if WWE plays their cards right with them like they’ve been doing since the royal rumble.

I feel like it’s less about bray’s dialogue not making sense, and more about his dialogue not working here (despite of the weird “cena looks into the mirror in the bathroom, sees sheep mask. looks behind, sees nothing, freaks out and is scarred for life!” segments) BECAUSE it’s vs cena of all people. BECAUSE the feud is now about cena’s “legacy”.

so, whatever… for now, all I want is what brandon said- for bray to get out of mania looking better than how he went into it, the same way he walked out of his royal rumble PPV match vs bryan earning everybody’s respect as an in-ring performer.

road dogg looks like, can talk like and can act like a rich gang big boss. all he misses is a big cigar, some gold chains and a nice office in a dark corner backstage with aksana as his secretary and he’d be the most entertaining GM.

but JBL naming the shield’s match vs the authority’s lap dogs a “match for the ages!” is, as many (or every) f*cking things he says, unacceptable. or did he mean to say “a match of the different ages!” and screwed it up?

also, if they let bray main event smackdown only to test if he’d draw, and paired him up with “my personal second least interesting person in WWE who I just don’t understand why he’s still sticking around on TV”, then, where’s the logic in that? are they seriously this stupid?
(p.s. ofcourse my least interesting person in WWE who I just can’t stand seeing on TV is natalya. who else did you think would be?)

“Batista gets a lot of grief be he’s done more in his return than Brock does.”

I wish he hadn’t… I wish he just sticked to smackdown where nate says he’s good, and never appeared on RAW ever. I can’t remember one good appearance for him on RAW that I enjoyed.

brock on the other hand made even the longest, most boring segment at the end of RAW last week worthy of watching for his alien war general screams and him testing the casket by stomping it from between the ropes a couple of times, getting angry and walking down the ramp to scare the dreads only to get thrown on his head on the casket by the end of it. I LOVED his feuds with cena and punk since he came back, and would pay anything in the world to get a feud between him and bryan, or him and sheamus or cesaro, or the shield.

The difference between Brock and Batista is simple. It was defined on Raw that one time they were in the ring together as Heyman was trying to put Brock in a match with either Orton or Batista.

Brock looked like he wanted to shoot murder someone, bouncing around and pacing like a predator on a leash. Batista didn’t move one over-inflated muscle, I think for fear that a twitch would draw Brock’s attention.

As Nathan said, Batista may weigh as much as Brock Lesnar, but he ain’t no Brock Lesnar.

The savaging of the Santino/Emma segment was perfect. What the hell is anyone getting out of this angle? Just bin this sort of time-wasting shite and use the extra time to make a match last longer than 3 minutes.

The only thing I can figure is that WWE’s creative team earnestly believes that only the same little kids that like Cena can appreciate wrestling humor, so they make it as puerile as they possibly can; in this instance, boner jokes and “girls are icky”. These segments probably *KILL* with twelve-year-olds; we’re just the wrong audience.

I think this might be the thought process that spawns the Santemma stuff…

1) “We need a romance angle to bring in women!”
2) “But it needs to appeal to kids, so make everyone’s childish and grossed out by the idea of things actually getting intimate.”
3) “But also, slip in something for the 30-something male hardcore fanbase who still loves the Attitude era. Something about friends with benefits or something.”
4) “Woof, Jesus, there’s no way we can reconcile all this stuff, this is going to be terrible. Give it to the new guy — you know, the one with an English degree from the University of Phoenix.”

Hearing Vickie dodge Michael Cole’s questions about how, exactly, the Divas Championship match at Wrestlemania is going to work and drop vague cliches like “That’s for me to know and you to find out” told me one thing – they have absolutely no f*****g clue what the rules for the match are going to be.

I guarantee, the production meeting had Vince announce to the room, “This is Wrestlemania 30, we have to do something big with the Divas, dammit, all the Divas!” Then someone said “Sure thing! We’ll do a huge Divas Battle Roya… Oh wait, we’re already doing one of those. Ok, lets just put a star next to ‘Divas Match” and come back to it later.” Then everyone got so preoccupied making sure they arranged to have Taker’s trick casket taken out of storage, they forgot to go back and figure out the divas match.

I like that the guy who hasn’t had a match in ten months is criticizing the guy who has been wrestling semi-regularly now since the end of January for the amount of time he hasn’t wrestled. You really stuck it to him there, Triple H.